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Forbidden Fruit
2023-12-06by Michael Lally all the forbidden fruit I ever dreamt of——or was taught to resist and fear——ripens and blossoms under the pal...
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Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat
2023-12-06by Kevin Young HAVENT HEARD FROM YOU IN AGES STOP LOVE YOUR LATEST SHOW STOP THIS NO PHONE STUFF IS FOR BIRDS LIKE YOU STOP ONCE SHOUTED UP FROM STREE...
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For the Twentieth Century
2023-12-06by Frank Bidart Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand technologies of ecstasy boundlessness, the world that at a drop of water rises without ...
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Upper World
2023-12-06by Rae Armantrout If sadness is akin to patience, we're back! Pattern recognition was our first response to loneliness. Here and there were like o...
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For Louis Pasteur
2023-12-06by Edgar Bowers "Who is Apollo?" College student How shall a generation know its story If it will know no other? When, among The scoffers at...
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Up-Hill
2023-12-06by Christina Rossetti Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to n...
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For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back
2023-12-06by Marilyn Hacker August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented unseen. I...
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Untranslatable Song
2023-12-06by Claudia Reder "Everyone needs one untranslatable song."——Juarroz On hearing the striped contralto of guinea fowl, its mock op...
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For John Clare
2023-12-06by John Ashbery Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet and salutes the sky. More of a success at it this time than mo...
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Untitled Poem ("Unslide the door")
2023-12-06by Joshua Beckman Unslide the door, uncap the lazy little coffee cup. The pasty people must be part of the dinner. And a city turns its incapacity in,...